“Some things in our life, we repeat over and over and over.”

“We got inspired for a short while to attempt to find my G spot.”

“My boyfriend knew that the cat was him”

“We umber

in the half-dream gloom until morning emerges”

“America caught in the throes of an ideological and cultural civil war.”

“What is an altar, anyway? Why did I have one?”

“Use our voices and actions to create positive change…”

“Rage against a future we didn’t consent to…”

“…bound to my identity, race, and being part of the black diasporic experience.”

“There is no happy ending glow of the Civil Rights Movement.”

“Donald Trump may well bring on an irrevocable climate catastrophe.”

“2016, I’ve never been so scared or so fearless.”

“The objective was to not call attention to himself”

“Liar misspelled. Exactly what I would have expected.”

“I want my ashes to dance, to root, to get kicked along and blown about”

“A gesture of love dedicated to Black Women.”

“The real question: if we didn’t have sex, would you still love me?”

“It sounds like you don’t know if it was consensual or not.”

“I think of parents grieving stolen breaths of their children”

“Black enough to be black? White enough to be white?”